Method: Monkeys to see if they would prefer food or comfort as attachment figure. Lab experiment. They had two surrogate mothers one was wire food source and other was made of cloth with no food.
Results: monkeys spent most of time clinging to cloth mother for comfort and only used wire one for food grew up to have social and emotional disturbance.
Conclusion: they formed attachments for comfort and protection
Evaluation: (+) Lab experiment, strict control over variables (-)Can't generalise this study to humans because monkeys and humans are qualitatively different (-) Ethical problems , monkeys were put in a stressful situation and some showed signs of psychological damage from the experiment.
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